Hardware A small mod: LGA775 Support For LGA771 Xeon CPUs?

[Celice]

I recently heard about this little mod, and it seems pretty cool to share. My nieces actually have a salvaged PC with a 775 mobo to play Sims on, so at some point I might end up trying this myself if they ever need a boost.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1431723/mod-lga775-support-for-lga771-xeon-cpus

The process reminds me a bit of the Super Nintendo mod, where you snap off two plastic tabs and bam--now you can play Japanese games no prob

 

[FAST6191]

Interesting. I did the token search to see how much a straight LGA771 board would run, you can get refurb ones for not a lot. However you are probably then lumped with buying FBDIMM RAM and combined that starts to be less cheap.

On the other hand many do have proper RAID or SAS support.